There is a collar of painful thorns of the past. It pricks me each time I breathe. I remember everything when I see him. It's extremely hard to wake up again after recalling my memories. Everything is fresh in my mind as if it happened yesterday.
He takes a step toward, looking at me with some guilt in his eyes. He knew everything. He should have been honest. He should have told me straightforwardly that he knew. What's the point of telling me after the wedding? Did he enjoy pretending to not know?
"You fucking liar!" I yell at him. "You knew that I married you because I wanted to take you away from Chisa. How do I trust you, Kiyohira? You should have told me. Your words are sweet. All of your actions speak otherwise. You don't lie to people you love. You don't lure them into a marriage. If you wanted me to love you back, you should have started from being honest first. You just wanted to possess me because you were afraid that I would reject you."
"Rie..." He reaches for me with his hand. I move away. If he touches me now, I am going to scratch his face and hit him until he is too hurt to stand up.
Those words... I am disappointed in myself. I realize that I have wanted to believe them. I thought that he changed. He became a better person.
"I didn't mean to lie to you. You pretended to not remember your kidnappers. So, I went along with it." He blocks my path when I try to leave and grabs my forearms. "I thought that Chisa was easy to handle. I thought that it was okay to let you do what you wanted to do with her if you could find peace. But, that woman came to the wedding and you fainted again. Now, I am afraid for your life. I don't want you to live in hell when you are with me. I want to keep you safe."
"I hate you." I have had enough of this. I find it suffocating to be in the same room as him. "Who are you to protect me?"
He inhales sharply and looks at me darkly. "Who do you think that I am?"
"Nobody," I tell him bitterly. "If you wanted to be somebody, you should have been honest first."
"I am sorry. I should have been honest. I thought that you wouldn't like if I tried to interfere." I try to escape the room again. He holds my arms tightly to keep me still.
"Then, you should have told me and stopped interfering." I ask him the same question, " Why are you telling it to me now? It hasn't even been a week. Are you that confident that I won't leave you? Kiyohira, you are the same man who will do anything to keep me with you. You would even kill yourself and me if I try to leave."
I will never forget the day he chased me with the helicopter.
"It's not like that." He pushes me on the bed. "Listen, you are not half wrong. I want to keep you with me. I will do anything to make you fall for me. I will keep telling you that I love you. I know that you will believe me one day. I just don't want a misunderstanding between us. Chisa knows that I know. She might -"
I slap his face. He widens his eyes and stares at me with shock.
"You told me because you were afraid that Chisa would say something or cause a misunderstanding. Kiyohira, this is not a misunderstanding. You lied to me. Why do you think that you love me? I don't feel that you love me. You will do what you want to do. You will lie and cheat to get what you want. You have done this before. That's how you have always been."
He clenches his jaw and lets go of me. We stare at each other silently. There is anger in his eyes, He asks me quietly, "Rie, do you hate that I lied to you and married you or do you hate that I know the truth about Chisa?"
"You still don't get it."
"What do I don't get?" He grimaces at me. "Didn't you also lie? You said that you married me for my money, but that was not on your mind. Say why would I marry a woman who openly tell me that she wants my money?"
I slap him again and again until he grabs my hand. This thick-headed bastard only thinks about himself.
"Get out. Don't show me your face again. I don't want to live with a man like you."
He walks out of the room with a darkened face. I glance at my red palm that is stinging from the pain of slapping him.
Is this their first serious fight in marriage or second?
She always thinks that his feelings are fake. He has changed. He genuinely wants to protect her and make her happy. She has lived in the past for so long. He wants her to look toward the light. How long does she plan to live like this?
He wants to make her happy. She won't give him a chance. She's hellbent on overthinking his intentions.
It's easy to say ask someone to move on and take the hand. For that someone, it might be difficult to even take a small step toward the light. If one stays in pain too long, they forget the meaning of love and care. They see everything through the broken pieces of their hearts. Asking someone who isn't ready to move on is akin to ask a child to run when he hasn't even learned to stand yet.
Kiyohira is too angry to stay. He drives straight to Kamiyama Groups HQ, hoping to cool down before he faces her again. One of them has to be cool-headed. Since she has taken the role of the bomb that can blast anytime in their marriage, he will become the one who comes back with a giant fire extinguisher to quench the fire to save their marriage.
When he enters his office, he sees where Mizutani sat before. In a formal suit that didn't fit him properly, the boy straightens up as a pole and looks at him with a rigid face. "Imamura Ken reporting."
"..." Is this military?
The new secretary is recommended to the HR department by Mizutani Isami before she left. He sighs when he looks at the boy with a goofy smile. The boy is straight out of college. Kiyohira doesn't like new and inexperienced people around him. But He trusts that Mizutani won't recommend him if the boy isn't capable.
"How do you know Mizutani?" Kiyohira asks him. He still can't see the reason why someone like Mizutani would recommend a boy like her.
The boy blushes hard. "She's the elder sister of my girlfriend."
"..." Kiyohira is speechless for the second time of the day. Did he overestimate Mizutani? He just shrugs it off. He will give this boy a chance for the sake of Mizutani's years of service.
He needs to think. His wife is angry. How does he appease her? Forget about her falling in love with him, she might divorce him at this rate. He shouldn't have told her. They have been good for a day. She's been becoming soft toward him.
"Kamiyama San." The goofy Imamura Ken places the cup of the chamomile tea in front of Kiyohira. His boss looks troubled. Mizutani San has told him to prepare that tea when Kamiyama San is in a bad mood. The boss certainly looks like he's in a bad mood. "If you have any problem, please tell this secretary. I will do anything to find a solution."
"Is that right?" Kiyohira creases his brow slightly. "Then, tell me how do I take care of my angry wife?"
Imamura Ken could never imagine that he would receive such a problem to solve on his first day. He clears his throat and thinks about the time when his girlfriend is mad at him.
"Boss, when my girlfriend is angry with me, I send her an expensive gift."
"A gift?" Kiyohira frowns deeply. She doesn't like jewelry or fancy dresses. Should he hand over the gaming company to her? She was interested in becoming a gaming champion once. Her talent is not lacking. He should use this to distract her while he deals with Chisa. If she is angry after she finds out, he will deal with it.
He's on his way out when he comes across Eichi in the elevator. The day is certainly not going good.
"Isn't this the newly married man?" Eichi is surprised to see him. "You got married yesterday. You are here today. Are you insane or the sex was that bad? You didn't even invite me to the wedding."
Kiyohira resists the urge to punch the guy. "Why are you curious?"
"I want to know what my friend was thinking when he decided to marry a woman was once his stepsister." Eichi shakes his head. "Choosing her over Chisa, just what were you thinking?"
"If you want Chisa so much, you can have her." Kiyohira hasn't forgotten that this man tried to make a move on Rie once. Chisa is quite suitable for this man.
"All the women who are charmed by you don't look at me." Eichi sighs. "I did try to take your fiance away, but she refused my advances in such a polite way that I actually felt bad for doing it."
"After going after each woman who has once interested me, you still call yourself my friend." Kiyohira stares at him. "I don't care what you did before. Don't show yourself to Rie."
"Kiyohira, I am not that crazy." Eichi shields his eyes. "Why would you marry a woman who stabs eyes? Think about it. If you ever fight with her, she might turn you blind."
Kiyohira purses his lips. He had a small argument with her in the morning. She slapped him countless times. His cheeks are still stinging. Luckily, his eyes are still intact. "She won't do that to me."
Hopefully.
"Men in love are crazy." Eichi follows him when he gets out of the elevator. "What do you like about her though?"
"What's there not to like?" Eichi hears Kiyohira say before he gets into the car. "If you are so free, get me the list of H groups' supporters. I want to offer a better deal to them."
"Are you crazy?" Eichi yells. Kiyohira is already driving away. He watches his car with a deep frown. Kamiyama Shintaro would never join hands with those kinds of people. Why is Kiyohira embarking on that path?
"What the hell is wrong with this man?"
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